Let these saute over medium low heat until fragrant and translucent. About 5 minutes.

Now we add our spices.

These spices are what make this dish so incredibly flavorful! The line-up includes:

3 tablespoons curry powder

2 teaspoons salt

1 teaspoon ground cumin

1/2 teaspoon cayenne

Beware! This dish is actually on the spicy side. For Beau it was perfect. For me, it tasted spicy. So, if you like less heat then add less cayenne. The Paleo rice I make will add some sweetness to this dish which does complement the heat quite well.

Add the spices to the sauteed onions. Mix it around to coat them nicely.

Once the spices are nice and fragrant add 4 boneless, skinless chicken breasts cut into about 1 inch cubes.

Stir them around to get them nice and coated. COAT ALL THE THINGS! At least that is what I shouted as I was stirring.

After the chicken is coated add 1 14.5 ounce can diced tomatoes.

Stir well and then cover and simmer on low heat for 20 minutes (be sure to stir halfway through).

While that is simmering it is time to prepare the ingredients which will thicken our curry.

A great trick, especially for a curry, is to take cashews and pulse them in a food precessor or coffee/spice grinder until they are finely ground. This will thicken the curry but also add nice flavor.

Also, I just love cashews.

I keep full fat, organic, canned coconut in my refrigerator. I do this because this helps keep the coconut cream separated from the coconut milk. And sometimes I just need the cream. Like for this recipe.

Open the can and scoop out just the cream:

At the bottom will be some of the clear milk. I reserve this for smoothies.

Look at this beauty. White cloud goodness.

After 20 minutes add the coconut cream (which ends up being about 3/4 to 1 cup) to the curry.

Cover and cook for an additional 20 minutes.

Once time is up, uncover and add the cashews and continue cooking and stirring for about five minutes more. And that my friends, is one delicious chicken curry recipe!

Paleo Rice for Chicken Curry Recipe

Now, the rice is important. While you wait around for your chicken curry to cook you can prepare paleo rice made with cauliflower! It is so yummy!

Take one head of cauliflower and roughly chop it up. In a food processor fitted with the grater add the chunks of cauliflower.

An easy way to do this without have cauliflower fly up at your face is to keep the food processor off while you add the cauliflower to the tube. Once the tube is full, place the feeding tube over it, turn on the food processor, press the feeding tube down until the cauliflower is grated. Turn the food processor off and repeat.

Your cauliflower will look like rice:

Add the cauliflower to a small stock pot. Add to it 1/4 cup chicken stock. This might not seem like a lot but it is plenty to steam the cauliflower! Then add 1 teaspoon garlic powder and 1/2 tablespoon salt. Sitr it all together and then cover and let it steam on medium heat for about 7 minutes.

Now, to make it unique for our dish. I need you to trust me on this. It is going to be amazing.

Once your cauliflower is done, uncover. (Stir and taste it, it should be tender but mot mushy.) Add 1 cup of golden raisins and 1/4 cup of roughly chopped cashews.

The sweetness of the raisins will burst with this incredible flavor when you eat it along with the curry. It not only will cool down the heat of the curry but it is just so delicious!

Scoop out some of the paleo rice and then add the curry to the top. Add chopped, fresh cilantro and kiss your craving goodbye.

This looks amazing. I too have Indian food cravings weekly, but I was under the impression that butter was not paleo? It's alright, I can easily substitute another fat to saute everything. I'll be making this soon, thanks!

Thanks, Michaela! Grass fed butter actually is Paleo! Here is an article with more information: http://www.marksdailyapple.com/grass-fed-butter/#axzz2j2xGCB9Z
Or you can use coconut oil. Hope you enjoy :)

Hey Brianne-
I made this for dinner tonight and we LOVED it. All four of us. I give it five stars and am going to put it into regular rotation. I (of course) went easy on the cayenne as suggested to ensure the kids would eat it, but even without much heat, Chris and I both loved it. It's got great flavor, while being both a tiny bit sweet and a tiny bit spicy.
It. Was. Awesome.
I made it with basmati rice, prepared as you suggested (which was amazing), but next time we'll try it with the cauliflower rice to make it full on paleo.
Thanks for this. Your blog is changing our lives! :)

Hi there from Australia, my husband pointed this recipe out on his Facebook news feed, one of his friends had recommended it so I decided to make it. I don't follow the paleo diet, but I do like tasty food, and this certainly ticked all the boxes for us! Thank you, and I'll be going back through your archives now to find some more tasty morsels.

This is definitely a keeper in our house. It is so nice to serve up a meal everyone likes, so much better than hearing "I don't like this"
I thought the cauliflower would be a stretch but my husband is on board with me, the teenage daughter still has some transitioning to do.
Paleo is working out well for me, thanks so much for making my life in the kitchen so much easier. We are from Australia as well.

Doubling the initial recipe, we stretched it in to about 5 moderate portions each (but also added brown rice in to the cauliflower and broccoli in to the curry).
This was DELICIOUS. It's a bit higher calorie, but heck! It's healthy! I used 1/4 the amount of butter and salt, and halved the cayenne. It tasted perfect to me, and my hot-sauce obsessed boyfriend also loved it (he didn't even add hot sauce, yay!). He did mention though, that he could definitely handle the whole tsp of cayenne if I had added it, hah.
Thanks for the recipe, I'm going to be making this again in the future! :)

This was absolutely amazing!!! Love the trick of using the coconut cream. I had freshly ground almond butter on hand so I used that to thicken instead of ground cashews. I cannot say enough good things about this recipe. It's even better the next day when the flavors have even more time to blend together.

Hi! I just want to say I love this recipe!!! I was wondering if I could use macadamia nuts instead of cashews.. My boyfriend can't eat cashews and I feel he's missing out on this dish! If not, what other nut would be a good substitution? And if it'll work, would you recommend the same servings as cashews to macadamia nuts? Thank you! I cannot wait to eat this again!!!

I have never made this with beef but if I did I would probably buy the raw pre-cut beef strips (usually used for fajitas). Most grocery stores carry this. Or sometimes I buy a New York Strip steak and cut it into strips for salads. This could also work. Let us know how it turns out!

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Hi there. I'm about to make this for tea tonight, but instead of chicken I'm adding prawns and calamari. I just wanted to point out that in the ingredients list for the cauliflower rice you missed the Chicken stock. It's only mentioned in the instructions. Wouldn't want anyone to miss this! Thanks for a lovely recipe, let's hope it goes well with seafood!

Hi! I am so excited to hear that you are making this and putting your own spin on it. I hope it was so delicious with the prawns and calamari. And thank you for noticing the typo. I have updated the recipe!

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